You do not have to pay for a subscription for their IDEs. You can pay just once and get that version of the IDE forever plus a period of updates. Or, use the community edition and pay nothing.
The "AI" service consumes real resources - it is not free for them to operate, and is a new cost burden that cannot be absorbed by the existing pricing. It makes complete sense for it to be its own cost.
You can also use the offline-only mode, which is 100% free and just runs on your machine.
I hate the "everything as a subscription" model with a passion, but JetBrains is one company that does appear to do it the "right" way where you're paying for continued development, not continued access to the same version.
> Well that's what happens when some mysterious new plugin finds itself on your dev tools without much acknoledgement
It was in the changenotes with a huge section, it was in the newsletter, and the blog.
JetBrains releases a lot of features of plugins, as they always have, so you can choose to slim down the IDE or replace functionality with 3rd party stuff (like copilot).
> The "AI" service consumes real resources - it is not free for them to operate, and is a new cost burden that cannot be absorbed by the existing pricing. It makes complete sense for it to be its own cost.
Sure is costs money to operate, most thing do. But that's not a good reason to have what is effectively an ad in a paid ide, plus a plugin that's effectivity dead code installed by default
>You can pay just once and get that version of the IDE forever plus a period of updates. Or, use the community edition and pay nothing.
nit: there is no community edition of Rider as of now (nor CLion from what I saw a few years ago. Could have changed). But yes, that is one thing I do like about Jetbrains.
But as of now I am paying a subscription price and I'm sure if I was on an older version this would want me to update. So now we have 2 subscriptions.
>The "AI" service consumes real resources - it is not free for them to operate, and is a new cost burden that cannot be absorbed by the existing pricing. It makes complete sense for it to be its own cost
sure, I don't care about it being free or paid. I pay for Dotcover as well so I'm not opposed to other paid tools if I find them useful.
I just don't want there to be some constant ploy of "oh you want to use a proile command in the top level menu? You haven't paid yet! Would you like to extend your subscription?" That's an annoying sales pitch. If I don't have a profiler don't put it front in center as if I do.
>JetBrains releases a lot of features of plugins, as they always have,
indeed. Most aren't installed by default, and I don't think any of them have ever retroactively installed in an update.
> indeed. Most aren't installed by default, and I don't think any of them have ever retroactively installed in an update.
They do, constantly. It's how their IDEs have always been structured for features. The current version of PyCharm comes with _76_ plugins, and new bundled plugins are added with practically every release.
> nit: there is no community edition of Rider as of now (nor CLion from what I saw a few years ago. Could have changed)
There's also a small but noticeable trend of them taking over actual for real Open Source plugins and bringing them in-house, as with the Terraform and Rust plugins. I am not only complaining about the closed-sourcing of them, which offends me as a hacker, but also because (at least with the Terraform one) it also became feature-dead, too, which I associate with all closed-source code having to compete with other backlog and corporate pressure for eyeballs
It could be apples-and-oranges because the rust one is getting promoted into its own IDE but still not a good trend
The "AI" service consumes real resources - it is not free for them to operate, and is a new cost burden that cannot be absorbed by the existing pricing. It makes complete sense for it to be its own cost.
You can also use the offline-only mode, which is 100% free and just runs on your machine.
I hate the "everything as a subscription" model with a passion, but JetBrains is one company that does appear to do it the "right" way where you're paying for continued development, not continued access to the same version.
> Well that's what happens when some mysterious new plugin finds itself on your dev tools without much acknoledgement
It was in the changenotes with a huge section, it was in the newsletter, and the blog.
JetBrains releases a lot of features of plugins, as they always have, so you can choose to slim down the IDE or replace functionality with 3rd party stuff (like copilot).